Monday, February 21, 2011

Jumping back: how to fall in the scorpion

This `trick' was what I did, naturally since I fell so often when I tried to learn the scorpion, as usual, on my own.

The first time I did it, I was on my head, and an assistant, now married to Natraj, told me to slip into it. She said I could do it. So I just trusted her and lifted my head up. My whole body wobbled as if with ague, due to the muscular demand of a scorpion. I could not believe I could do it. After that, it has always been falls, falls, falls and constantly trying to do it on my own. Using a wall, cracking my neck, and everything else in between... That has been good. I started on it almost when I was 40 ... so, u understand why I am so confident that this pose is not unachievable. Plus, those learnign from me have the advantage that I have made all the mistakes they are likely to make:)

Last time when at the ashram for assisting, Prahlada made all of us jump. And fall! Of course, for me, that was a cakewalk. However, it is one thing to fall from a scorpion and another to initiate a fall... but it is a good way to get over the fear...

Here the video shows how u may fall /jump into the scorpion.

The problem with the jump version is that u fall more than u hold the pose.. nine falls for one hold, initially.

The trick I realise is that if you jump up, immediately go into the pincha mayurasana, then drop the legs. This gives better control.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THE FALL:
Keep focus on hands and feet, keep back off ground... the main thing is not to fall on your back. As u can see if the feet-hands are engaged, then your back automatically lifts off the floor.

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World as illusion: science speak

But our experience of a stable outside world is a consistent illusion that the brain creates. It is an illusion that has been `designed' long before we arrived on earth, for the purpose of biological survival. The illusion begins at the first neuron. Our senses grab only a little of reality; the eye takes in a trillionth of the energy which reaches it, the ear similarly. So, our experience of the world as stable is so because of the way the brain is organized, not because of the way the world is.

From The Healing Brain, by Robert Ornstein and David Sobel. For more astounding quotes go here...

DHYAN GYAN: silent yogi

Maharishi says

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

They know better:)

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